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	Drowning by Numbers
		Drowning by Numbers is another visually striking essay by Britain's master of the cinematic put-on.
		If Drowning by Numbers is "about" anything, then it is about the way in which women conspire together, choking the life out of those who have disappointed them sexually, emotionally or otherwise.
		In Drowning by Numbers, Greenaway's most accessible film to date, these collective themes add together to form a bizarre jigsaw puzzle with few straight edges, a delineated, looking-glass world in which numbers count for everything and love is often left dead in the water.
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	Drowning By Numbers (R, 1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The number sequence was clever and at times hilarious, and it was fun to watch for the numbers and for the recurring patterns in the dialogue in each scene.
		For example, I would normally criticize an emotionally empty film such as Drowning By Numbers for all its violence and graphic sexual content, but the fact is that the entire film is mostly arbitrary and shies away from the psychological implications of any behavior-violent, sexual, or otherwise.
		Assuming, then, that Drowning By Numbers was nothing more than an attempt to take the bare bones of a linear plot and use it for what amounts to more of a filmed intellectual and artistic exercise than a story with realistic plot and character development, it works most of the time.
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	Drowning by Numbers - The Number List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the most exacting disciplines of the editing of "Drowning By Numbers" was to preserve the number-count intact.
		Whereas one numbered bee was originally filmed, the loss of the subsequent scene required a new candidate for number 47.
		32 is the number painted on the road among the flies to mark the bloodied and unrecognizable corpse.
	www.nvg.ntnu.no /film/tfk/h2000/drown100.html (1257 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Drowning By Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meanwhile, the numbers from 1 to 100 appear in sequence in the film, sometimes where you would expect them, sometimes not - as when dead cows in a field are painted with tidy white numbers - 78 and 79, as I recall.
		"Drowning by Numbers" was made by Greenaway before his celebrated film "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," but is being released afterward.
		The characters in "Drowning by Numbers" are all completely credible people, who speak in ordinary English and inhabit a real landscape (except for the numbers), and behave in ways that would not shock the reader of a mystery novel.
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	Drowning by Numbers Games
		The more important identities are the Emperor, the Widow, the Judge, the Hangman, the Ghost, the Red Queen, the Fat Lady, the Dunce, the Businessmen, the Adulterer, the Harlot, the Gravedigger, the Maiden, the Twins, the Chinaman, the Savage, the Cook, the General, the Prisoner, the Beggarman, the Thief and the Priest.
		for seven is the number of the days of the week, the colours of the rainbow, the seven seas, the primary planets, the seven dwarfs, the deadly sins, the ages of man and the wonders of the world.
		In Drowning by Numbers, after conducting a race throughout the entire film, the hare and hounds meet together for the denouement at the "home" or base located at Madgett's jetty.
	petergreenaway.co.uk /games.htm (2290 words)

	'Drowning by Numbers'
		Numbers, of course, are everywhere from the beginning.
		Number 18 is painted on a rabbit cage.
		In Sheep and Tides, for instance, they tether a flock of sheep beast by beast to an equal number of armchairs, on which teacups are placed.
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	notcoming.com \| Drowning by Numbers
		Drowning By Numbers opens with the image of a girl jump-roping awkwardly in a hoop dress, rhythmically adding a number and corresponding name with each sequential hop.
		Drowning By Numbers is a curiously feminist film (a persistent theme in Greenaway’s work).
		Each Cissie is unsatisfied by popularly masculine faults in her male mate: one is an infidel, another is sexually disinterested; both, similarly, are drowned.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=58 (782 words)

	Chris Renson filmography Drowning by Numbers (1987)
		Over the course of the film, they all drown their respective husbands, starting off with the mother, who starts the trend when she catches her husband with another woman, realises she's had enough of him, and pushes his head underneath the water level of a bath tub his wading in.
		The first drowning is almost understood, as the husband had been cheating on her for years, and it's almost like he received his just desserts for being such a bastard.
		And, of course, there are the numbers, that give the film a sense of order and duration, that it will only last as long as there are 100 numbers (after 100, everything becomes bland, as the film points out).
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	'Drowning by Numbers'
		The thing, which tells the story of three women -- all named Cissy -- who drown their husbands, is darned clever; so clever, in fact, that you'd love to just smack the director one in the chops.
		The central gimmick here -- the main one of many -- is that hidden in each scene is a number, ranging in order from 1 to 100, so that we can count our way through the film.
		Well, it's sort of like that, only the numbers are easily visible, so it's not really much of a challenge -- at least not for anyone who can count to 100.
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	Amazon.com: Drowning By Numbers (1991) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Drowning By Numbers" is a complex film about three women all named Cissie who each decide--for a variety of reasons--to drown their husbands.
		Numbers also play a large role in this film, and they appear throughout the film, sometimes the characters or objects are marked with numbers--not in every scene-- until the end which brings us to one hundred.
		`Drowning By Numbers', written and directed by Peter Greenaway and released in 1987 may be the perfect refutation to Susan Sontag's claim that cinema is no longer `poetic and mysterious and erotic and moral - all at the same time' (See `The New Yorker', Sept. 12, 2005).
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	Drowning by Numbers
		The counting to 100 in the rope-jump prefigures the appearance of the numbers one through a hundred in sequence throughout the movie.
		The plot, such as it is, centers around three women with the same name who all drown their husbands, with the assistance of the coroner, an inveterate gamesman who protects the women from the law in return for sexual favors.
		Besides the ones I mentioned, the other main character in the film is the coroner's bizarre number-obsessed son, who narrates, and actually does most of the numbering that marks the progress of the film.
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	The Kitchen Sink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three women in succession drown their husbands, and Madgett, hoping to gain a little "physical comfort," covers the whole thing up at the expense of his reputation, and eventually much more.
		And the last image one sees, of course, is the number one hundred, painted in bright white on the side of a sinking boat.
		If the fourth victim were to drown, it would be outside the frame of the script, outside the limits of the counting game.
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	Drowning by Numbers
		The story is about three women, all with the same name, Cissie Colpitts, each from different age groups, who have something in common, they each murder their husbands by drowning them.
		Throughout the film there are the numbers 1 to 100 placed in ascending order on display in some peculiar positions.
		Greenaway on the themes and artistic influences of Drowning by Numbers
	petergreenaway.co.uk /drowning.htm (323 words)

	Drowning by Numbers - Michael Nyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed, the amount of effort and dedication to writing the score in the manner he did seems verging on the non-credible and the cynical might argue, rather pointless.
		As the title suggests, the film is about drowning, this of three generations of women who are discontent with their husbands.
		The helpful notes indicate that there are four drownings during the film and the original Mozart was used after each, but the rest of the score is based on these four bars.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/drowningbynumbers.htm (516 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Drowning by Numbers
		Drowning by Numbers, British motion picture about three women who kill their husbands.
		adding negative numbers, adding numbers of opposite signs, addition, collinear points, comparing numbers, comparing ratios, finding coordinates on...
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	DROWNING BY NUMBERS - Bernard Hill Joan Plowright Average Peter Greenaway Drama 1988 -
		DROWNING BY NUMBERS - Bernard Hill Joan Plowright Average Peter Greenaway Drama 1988 -
		Three women, each named Cissie, murder their abusive husbands by drowning them.
		Madgett (Bernard Hill), the local coroner covers up the murders in return for sexual favors, and when the women don't respond in the way he would like them to, he involves their families.
	www.movies2go.net /review/DrowningByNumbers.html (59 words)

	EUFS: Drowning By Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set in an idyllic English summer, in a typically peaceful English village with typically disturbing English undercurrents of jealously, revenge and avarice, this film is awash with visual references very much setting the style of the film in the memorable opening scenes of Plowright drowning her husband in the bath.
		Like The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, this film has some almost farcical moments but overall it is more reminiscent of, say, A Zed And Two Noughts in tone, if not in subject.
		The Numbers from the title refers to the strategic placing of the numbers 1 to 100 throughout the film, further emphasising the game-playing theme and inviting the audience to join in the fun.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/drowning_by_numbers.html (290 words)

	Drowning in numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Freeman recently spoke with a handful of Waukesha County residents who were willing to share their story.
		Overall, they want people to know that they are more than just a number.
		He isn’t sure what the future will bring for health care but said something needs to be done to address the growing numbers.
	www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2004/August_04/08072004_04.asp (1115 words)

	Drowning by Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Three generations of women, a mother, her daughter and her niece - all called Cissie Colpitts - experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown.
		The story is paced by the numbers one to one hundred, which appear sequentially through the film.
		Drowning by Numbers / Juggling in Movies / movies@juggling.org © 1997 Juggling Information Service.
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	Drowning By Numbers : The Hidden Numbers
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		In some scenes, the numbers are rather obvious, in others you have to pause the movie to see the image long enough to find the numbers.
		The numbers correspond to the storyline, which follows.
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	Drowning by Numbers (1987)
		Ostensibly about three like-named women whose husbands drown, this film serves as a medium for Greenaway to incorporate some familiar obsessions (numbers, water, death).
		Death by drowning figures big in Greenaway's stylish faux documentary.
		Drowning is major plot point in less stylish suspense film.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2631 (85 words)

	Murder by Numbers
		Hot on the case, Cassie and Sam ponder dry erase-boards under flickering fluorescents while failing to provide an explanation for why, exactly, the film is called "Murder by Numbers." It neither uses The Police tune as its anthem nor plays with numbers as a North by Northwest, Se7en, or even Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers.
		What Murder by Numbers does do is shake itself out as a subtle variation on I Spit On Your Grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men spawned by a past victimization.
		What's more of a shame is that Murder by Numbers squanders fantastic performances by Pitt (late of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Gosling as well as a wonderfully written and edited interrogation sequence to Barbet Schroeder's occasional inexplicable penchant for producing garbage (see also Single White Female, Desperate Measures, Kiss of Death).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/murderbynumbers.htm (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Drowning by Numbers: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Together with the Book: "Fear of Drowning" (see my review), this is all you will need to watch this Film over and over again, and enjoy it more every time.
		Also included are the scenes that were cut, which I am sure all afficionados will find quite interesting, and a sort of list of the locations of the number count in the film, as well as some great photos.
		I will say that "Drowning by Numbers" is my favorite Film because of its complexity, playfulness, symbolism, its numerous allusions, beautiful cinematography, excellent acting and casting, wonderful music and of course, its Script, which this book is. To the person who enjoys the Film, this will surely make them enjoy it even more.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2906571709?v=glance (588 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Drowning by Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The senior Cissie has drowned her husband Jake (Bryan Pringle) in the bathtub, her daughter sent her spouse Hardy (Trevor Cooper) to a watery grave in the ocean, and the youngest Cissie sent her husband Bellamy (David Morrissey) down in a swimming pool.
		Along the way, Greenaway often stops to contemplate his obsessions with literature, astronomy, and numbers.
		Drowning by Numbers was released in Europe in 1988, but didn't find its way to American screens until 1991, following the success of Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
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	Drowning by Numbers (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plot Summary: Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband.
		The film begins with a young girl (adorned in a dress from Velazquez's painting Las Meninas) who is skipping and counting stars, 100 of them (some of these stars have Greenaway names like Hoyten, Luper and Spica).
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Drowning by Numbers (1988)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0092929 (382 words)

	Drowning By Numbers (1991)
		Three generations of women with the same name have rid themselves of their unwanted husbands in the same manner - they drown them.
		The local coroner agrees to declare the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors.
		A darkly humorous, twisted rendering from grim auteur Greenaway, boasting his trademark lush production design (marked by the sequential appearance of the numbers 1-100), surreal touches (like the fanciful voiceover narration delivered by a death-obsessed boy), and unflinching depictions of sex, nudity, and violence.
	www.starglimpse.com /movies/drowning_by_numbers_(1991).shtml (123 words)

	Man in a Suitcase: Tulse Luper at Compton Verney by Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy
		The film starts in a picture gallery in which are hung 92 of Greenaway's drawings, which the voice of the dying narrator-protagonist — Colin Cantlie's brisk, authoritative voice of British documentary — presents in sequence as maps arranged for him by Tulse Luper: “Tulse Luper suggested my journey through H needed 92 maps.
		One of the largest and most impressive rooms at Compton Verney is the Adam Hall, where 72 closed and numbered suitcases hang by wire from the Robert Adam ceiling in 9 staggered rows of 8.
		But on that road it will also meet refugees and migrants and corpses in unprecedented numbers, for the twentieth century is also a century of genocide and globalized warfare, of diaspora and mass migration.
	www.imageandnarrative.be /tulseluper/elliot_purdy.htm (5067 words)

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		Drowning by Numbers This is a picture that offers so much to the viewer.
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	Rigorous Intuition: Drowning by Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stories of insurance and other kinds of fraud would be combined with a complete lack of mention of the number of complainers, were it large.
		The one in Colorado is surrounded by barbed and razor wire.
		I have also read that the number of war dead is being covered-up as well.
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